Draft-yoke for railway-car draft-rigging.



DRAFT YOKE FOR RAILWAY OAR DRAFT RIGGING APPLICATION FILED APR. 1014.

J. P. OCONNOR.

Patented Feb .16,1915. I

WITNESSES JabpFUZJrumr 3 UNITED STATES JOHN F. OCQNNOR, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOB TO WILLIAM H. MINER, OF

CHICAGO,

ILLINOIS.

DRAFT-YOKE FOR RAILWAY-CAR DRAFT-RIG-GING.

Specification bf Letters Patent.

Application filed April 23, 1914. Serial No. 838,842.

and useful Improvement in Draft-Yokesfor Railway-Car Draft-Rigging, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and

exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

. My invention relates to improvements in draft yokes for railway car draft rigging.

The object of my iri-yention is, to provide a draft yoke of simple" and strong construction.

In the drawings forming a part of this is a plan view of a draft yoke embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in vertical longitudinal section on line 2--2 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a cross section along line 33 of Fig. 2; Fig. 4 is a vertical longitudinal section on line H of Fig. 3. J

In the drawings, I have illustrated a type of yoke generally known as a horizontal yoke, having a U-shaped yoke strap 5, consisting of the limbs 6-6 and the rear connecting member 7. Each limb 6 at its free end is provided with a sleeve 8, each sleeve preferably comprising the spaced-apart alipright portions 9-9 between which the yoke limb is received, the upper and lower connectin shoul er 11. The sleeves 8 are each pro-. vided with a transverse slot 12 to receive the coupler key 13, which passes-through said slots and through the slot 14of the draw-bar 15, only the rear end of the drawbar being shown in the drawings. The sleeves 8 are each suitably secured to their appropriate yoke limb by suitable means,

Patented Feb. 16, 1915;

portions 1010-, and the inner preferably the rivets 1616 passing through the sleeve and through the inclosed limb of the yoke. Thus each sleeve forms a band surrounding one of the free ends of the yoke strap. I I claim In a draft rigging for railway cars a yoke consisting of, a U-shaped yoke strap and a pair of sleeves, each sleeve comprising a band surrounding a free end of the yoke strap, the said bands being slotted for the passage of a coupler key thercthrough.

4 JOHN F. OCONNOR. Witnesses:

ARLI'NE R. ARNOLD, CARRIE G. RANz 

